Today, one of the three Comanche aircraft from our safari group departed Broome on a two day journy back east. Meanwhile, the Bazflyers in company with the other remaining aircraft, relocated some 1000 kilometres further south to the red-earth mining centre of Paraburdoo. A purposeful town with a generous all weather airport and appropriately for us its our gateway to some of the specular attributes of the Pilbara. Known for its Aboriginal peoples, its ancient landscapes, the red earth and its vast mineral deposits, the Pilbara also has some of Earth's oldest rock formations.
"Red" aptly signifies the Pilbara region of West Australia
Flight route IFR from Broome to Parabardoo via a refuelling stop at Port Headland.
Port Hedland with a natural deep anchorage harbour is where iron ore mined in the Pilbara is shipped to world markets. Ore is moved by railway systems on trains measuring many kilometres in length and making Port Headland the highest tonnage port in Australia.
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